DECEMBER 2025

🦋 Help Us Reach Our Goal! 🦋

This giving season, your donation can go TWICE as far! Thanks to supporters like you, we've already raised $9,230—and every gift brings us closer to our goal.

Your gift today will be MATCHED up to $10,000 by our friends at the Oklahoma City Zoo & Botanical Garden until December 31, doubling your impact to protect migrating monarch butterflies and native pollinators.

📖 Bonus Gift! When you contribute $100 or more by December 31, you’ll receive the latest edition of Oklahoma Native Plants for People and Pollinators by Oklahoma landscape architects Connie Scothorn and Brian Patric of CLS and Associates, LLC—a beautiful, photo-filled guide to creating pollinator-friendly landscapes across our state.

🌼 Help Oklahoma bloom—make your tax deductible gift today and double your impact dollar-for-dollar!

💸 Donate Today!

📣 Monarch Merchandise Now Available Online 📣

🎁 Looking for a gift that will delight the pollinator enthusiast in your life? We’ve got you covered! 😍

Order online today and explore our limited-edition items, including color-changing glassware, snazzy socks, an eye-catching fanny pack, a kaleidoscope bandana, and a pollinator habitat sign—perfect for pollinator lovers and gift-givers alike.

Beanies are sold out—grab your merch while supplies last❣️

⏳ Supplies are limited, so snag your pollinator-perfect gifts before they flutter away!

Snag Your Swag 🛍️

Strat ’n Sow: Let Winter Do the Work

❄️ Winter is an excellent time to start native pollinator plants, because the natural freeze–thaw cycles help break seed dormancy. One easy method is to scatter seeds directly onto the ground just as a light snow begins. As the snow settles and later melts, it gently presses seeds into the soil and provides the moisture they need to stratify over winter. This low-effort technique can kick-start your pollinator garden.

♻️ For gardeners who want a bit more control, winter-sowing in recycled containers—such as milk jugs or other clear plastic vessels—creates a mini greenhouse that protects seeds, maintains moisture, and often improves spring germination. 🌱 Another option is sowing in outdoor seed cells or trays, which makes transplanting easier later on, though these will need more attention to moisture as temperatures rise. Both methods allow nature to do most of the hard work while giving you more predictable results.

Need wildflower seeds? Choose from Johnston Seed’s Okies for Monarchs mixes! Available in eastern Oklahoma and central/western Oklahoma blends, each mix is specially crafted to support local monarch populations.

Ready to get growing? Explore these germination methods & tips from Wild Ones at the link below.

📖 Learn Techniques

Conservation & Habitat Funding Opportunities

📣 Oklahoma landowners, we have great news! There are two conservation funding programs available to help you restore, improve, and maintain your land while receiving financial support.

🤝 The Oklahoma Conservation Commission’s ReNEW Cost-Share Program helps landowners implement wetlands conservation and restoration projects with substantial financial support. The application period runs January 1–March 1, 2026, and applicants may receive up to 80% cost-share on approved practices, capped at $35,000 per project.

💸 The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Wildlife Habitat Improvement Program (WHIP) supports private landowners in restoring and enhancing native wildlife habitat. Applications close on December 31, and selected projects may receive up to $4,500 in reimbursement. Each approved project operates under a 1-year project timeline followed by a 10-year maintenance plan to ensure long-term habitat improvement.

A Monarch Journey to Mexico with OKC Zoo

🧭 Join the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden in witnessing one of nature's most awe-inspiring events—the monarch butterfly migration in central Mexico. Each fall, these remarkable creatures embark on a 3,000-mile journey from Canada to their overwintering sites in Mexico. Seeing thousands of delicate butterflies fill the sky and cluster in the trees is a profound reminder of nature’s beauty and resilience.

🚌 Travel with the Oklahoma City Zoo to experience this extraordinary phenomenon up close, while supporting the local communities that play a vital role in protecting these very forests.

🧳 Explore

Show Your Pollinator Pride!

Get a Habitat Sign

Order a License Plate

Got Milkweed and Monarch Questions?

Join the Oklahoma Friends of Monarchs

support group on Facebook

UPCOMING EVENTS

The events below are from our statewide community calendar.

December 10, 5 pm - 6:30 pm

OKC Beautiful Sustainability Social Hour with Connie Scothorn

Second Story Books, OKC

December 16, 1 pm - 2 pm

Climate Change Effects on the Timing of Monarch Life History Events

Monarch Joint Venture, Webinar

January 23 - January 29th

Monarch Butterfly Migration in Central Mexico

Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden, Mexico

January 31, 7:45 am - 12:30 pm

Gardening with the Experts

Gordon Cooper Technology Center, Shawnee

January 31, 9 am - 11 am

OKC Beautiful Wilson School Garden Work Day

Wilson School Garden, OKC

February 10, 1 pm - 2:30 pm

The Secret Life of Moths

Monarch Joint Venture, Webinar

February 25 - February 26, 8 am - 5 pm

National Native Seed Virtual Conference

Institute for Applied Ecology, Online

Help plant the path for pollinators!

🫶 Donate Today!

Okies for Monarchs is an initiative of the Oklahoma Monarch & Pollinator Collaborative and the Oklahoma Monarch Society, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

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